Professor Leonard Barkan's Lecture "Some Pages from Michelangelo's Life, with Reflections on Some Other Lives" Stanford's Cantor Arts Center Auditorium (May 19, 2011)

MICHELANGELO'S BOW David with his sling shot, and I with the bow— Michelangelo. Bow shooting arrows or playing the harp— weapon of war or peace? Professor Barkan tells us "If you wish to know you'll have to buy my book." I tell him the bow could be a crescent moon in the hands of Diana or the Bowl of Night filled with stars to make our dreams come true or a bow in the cloud— a covenant between heaven and earth or the bow is Om— symbol of Brahman the Supreme Spirit that flows through us when we are inspired to create something new the way Michelangelo did when his chisel carved David to wakefulness.   Peter Y. Chou   Mountain View, 6-28-2011